Detachable handle for pans.



, Y E HIGKEY. DETAGHABLE HANDLE FOR PANE.`

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 29, 1907.

906,801. Patented Dec. 15, 1908;

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EDWARD HIGKEY, OF SAWYERS BAR, CALIFORNIA.

DETACHABLE HANDLE FOR PANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15,1908.

Application led October 29, 1907. Serial No. 399,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD HICKEY, citizen of the United States,residing at Sawyers Bar, in the county of Siskiyou and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements in DetachableHandles for Pans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a handle for pans, stew-pots7 and culinary orother vessels.

It consists in the combination of parts and in details of constructionwhich will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which--the figure is a perspective view of the device.

It is the object of my invention to provide a handle having clampssuitably disposed so that the handle may be readily affixed to any panor utensil for the purpose of lifting or carrying the same, and may bedetached and removed whenever desirable.

The device may be a two-part one, one portion being threaded withrelation tothe other, and the handle turnable so as to draw the jawstogether, or separate them.

As shown in the drawing, A is a portion of the shank having a downwardlyextending gripping jaw 2.

3 is a second shank; this also having a downwardly projecting jaw 4.

The `part A may be channeled or hollow to receive the part 3, or so thatthe two parts may he slidable with relation to each other. One of theparts may be secured to a handle 5, and the other part removable withrelation to the handle. Thus the part A may be secured to the handle 5,the part 3 slidable with relation to the part A, may have its inner endscrew-threaded as shown at 6, and this end will be turnable incorresponding screw-threads in a nut 7, which is carried by the handle5, so that by turning the handlev with relation to the part A and itscoupling 8, the part 3 will be caused to move out or in as required.

rIhe jaw 2 of the part A is projected slightly so that after being assedover the rim 9 of the pan 10, the hand e being turned, will draw thejaws 2 and 4 together, and these jaws will grip the sides of the panjust below the rim; thus forming a firm handle by which the pan orutensil may be moved as required, which is especially useful Where theutensils are hot. y

By turning the handles in the opposite direction, the threaded ortion ofthe shank will be moved outward y, and with it the jaw which isconnected therewith, thus releasing the grip and allowing the handle tobe removed from the utensil.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent isl. As an article of manufacture, a detachable handlefor pans, said handle consisting of a shank portion having a downwardlyextending gripping jaw at one end and having a handle at the oppositeend, said handle beinff provided with a nut and a companion shan portionslidably fitting within the firstnamed shank portion and having adownwardly projecting jaw at one end and having threads to be engaged bysaid nut, the aws of the two shank portions being widened transverselyto form broad bearing surfaces adapted to grip a pan.

2. As an article of manufacture, a detachable handle for pans, saidhandle consisting of a shank portion having a downwardly extendinggripping jaw at one end and having a coupling member at the oppositeend; a companion shank portion slidably fitting within the first-namedshank portion and having a downwardly projecting jaw; and a handlehaving a nut to engage threads on said second named shank portion, saidjaws being widened transversely to form broad bearing surfaces adaptedto grip a pan, and the faces of said jaws being substantially parallelfor a portion of the length of the jaws and having the remainin portionsoilset to accommodate the rim o a pan.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

EDWARD HICKEY.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. HUGHES, WM. M. WIKE.

